Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Mail chew; more staff calls. Out for some shopping into town, back for lunch.
Posted our annual: Thank-you & summary of 2019 - to try to thank so many who have worked with us this year.
Out for a walk, back, babes watched Frozen with J.

2019-12-23 Monday.

Calls with staff, annual review write-ups, a few calls & more work in the car on the way to B&A's arrived; worked through the afternoon, lots of great work done by the team through the year.

2019-12-22 Sunday.

All Saints service in the morning - Fraser taught, back home for lunch, and out for a walk with the babes. N. ill. Slugged, tea, out to the (packed) Carol Service in the evening, lovely. Bed late.

2019-12-20 Friday.

More debugging work, fixing; annual review planing & finalization.
J's family over for a present-exchange, J. made a lovely spread for us all.
Sync call with Tracie.

2019-12-20 Friday.

More debugging work, fixing; annual review planing & finalization; re-spun builds.
J's family over for a present-exchange, J. made a lovely spread for us all.
Sync call with Tracie, calls with staff.

2019-12-19 Thursday.

More fixing, build testing & improvement & write-up until the afternoon. Snatched some sleep. Back for more planning & mending. Band practice in the evening.

2019-12-18 Wednesday.

Out for a run with J. and E. TDC call. Plugged away at testing & bug fixing all day, and late into the night with much of the team. At some stage it turned into tomorrow.

2019-12-17 Tuesday.

Admin catch-up; monthly mgmt meeting. Hospital visit. Late partner call.

2019-12-16 Monday.

Bug review, admin, co-ordination, hacking, slideware bits. More bug chasing.

2019-12-15 Sunday.

All Saints, played in the band; caught up with many lovely people, home for a fine pizza lunch. Out for a walk with the family at Brandon - fun. Back, for some slugging & movie action.

2019-12-14 Saturday.

Out for a run with J. picked up M. and posted cards. Started digging through tax returns & paperwork, did some queued admin. Replaced my keyboard: after months of chasing a S/W error - seems it could well have been a H/W one: bother.
Bit of hacking, mail chew - fixed a nasty bug caused by upgrading 'vex' - the combination of a radically mis-designed language (Javascript), and dependency on un-encapsulate-able complex behaviours creates a radioactive swamp where lets just upgrade that piece creates actute knock-on pain.

2019-12-13 Friday.

Mail chew. Really thrilled to see Kohei' work to significantly improve MDDS performance (the Multi Dimensional Data Structures we use at the core of Calc for many things).
Happened to be reading through Carson on Tolerance this morning, and got to this bit: "Democracy remains the best way of making government more or less accountable. Nevertheless ... Democracies can believe falsehoods and do cruel and wicked things.". He argues cogently that having a higher authority, a self-standing ethical yard-stick, capable of questioning and challenging the state is fundamental to human freedom, though highly unwelcome to totalitarians of course. Interestingly one of the goals of TDF's board election processes is assuring that a diversity of views is represented, and that it is hard to exclude voices people may not want to hear.
Marketing call. Calls with Kendy, Cor, MikeK, Thorsten. Admin, bug triage & testing. Customer call, worked late on text.

2019-12-12 Thursday.

Somewhere morning arrived; fixed a floating window crasher, and unwound a convert-to bug: trying to save-as before being fully loaded. Slept for a couple of hours, report writing sync with Javier.
Back to review code changes, beat back the admin. Thomas came over for some more interview training.

2019-12-11 Wednesday.

Mail, took H. to the Dentist for a 1st filling. Fixed a URL encoding issue on Android. Plugged away at a nasty Android crash; it seems important to detach the VM from threads cleanly - shame the OS can't handle that for you.
Out to Ely Cathedral to play in the Orchestra for the Soham Carol Concern, lovely as always. Chased various crashers and regressions, worked overnight.

2019-12-10 Tuesday.

More team calls, continued Online bug fixing. Discovered our SSL / EAGAIN handling didn't exist - added that - the async SSL/BIO interface is not that simple to use.
Really pleased to see a huge amount of hard work, and late nights pay off around our (beta) Collabora Office for Android - which is looking rather georgeous, with particular thanks to Kendy, Szymon, Tor & Kaishu (as well as many others - see the credits) for doing battle there:
Up late, polishing and fixing this & that.

2019-12-09 Monday.

Meetings, mail chew, got other people's selections updating on zoom in calc properly with the right co-ordinate system. Improved pre-fetching to not fetch the whole spreadsheet over time.

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